Now as SqueezePad has been officially released there are sooo many
directions on could go for improving the user experience.
Of course not everything can be done at the same time in an
one-developer-shop, so things must be prioritized.
As I'm already very happy with the current set of features, I decided
to start a poll to find out what feature would make most of the
user-base happy.
So take your time and vote for the thing you want me to start at next.
MORE IMAGES OF YOUR MUSIC COLLECTION
Right now there a different ways to find more images matching your
music collection/the current playing song.
One of them is the Flickr-App who searches for images and erland's
'Song Info' plugin who does a very good jobs at finding images on
Last.FM.
I always enjoy watching them on the Radio, but the display there
unfortunately is sooooooooooo small.
Now with the iPad why not browse all these images like in the 'Photos'
App ? Fullscreen, with scaling, as a slideshow ...
So lets just tap the image of the current song and start such an image
viewer !
BETTER PLAYLIST MANAGEMENT
While the current/to be released version of SqueezePad has some basic
playlist features via the context-menus (all those that logitech
provides on their SqueezePlay devices) I guess people heavily using
playlist might find the possibilities a bit limited.
The lets have a custom playlist editor which optionally appears on the
right side (overlaying the 'Now Playing' part of the app until
dismissed) where you can reorder tracks with drag and drop or delete
single items.
If you are in the albums/titles/artists menu on the left one could even
think of drag'n'dropping them from left to right (I'm not sure yet how
complicated this could get for me).
Remember: touching a song already changes the menu or presents the
context-menu so I still have to think how to best avoid confusions.
SYNCING PLAYERS (VARIATION A)
Syncing players is available in the current version of SqueezePad via
the default logitech menu. But again: if you do it often, the Logitech
way ("select a player, sync it to another player, switch to the next
player ...") might not be the most comfortable one.
So lets improve the popup for choosing players with options to group
players with drag'n'drop as you might already know it from another
iPhone App for Squeezeboxen.
SYNCING PLAYERS (VARIATION B)
But is this the right way to do syncing ? Some time ago someone posted
the following idea:
Why not define named Sync-Groups like 'Party Backyard', 'Party
Frontyard' where players are assigned (again with drag and drop).
You then can easily activate certain preconfigured Sync-Groups which
might be very handy if you often need different Sync-Groups.
Players would be allowed to be assigned to multiple Sync-Groups in the
configuration by the way.
(I'll add the votes of 'Variation A+B' together, to get an overall
count for a syncing feature)
MYSQUEEZEBOX.COM - INTEGRATION
Currently you need a local server for running SqueezePad.
Do you want me to add mysqueezebox.com support so that it works also
without a local server ?
TRACKSTAT RATINGS
Never used this feature myself - other Apps have this feature so it
might be important. Tell me with your votes !
CACHING OF ALBUM + ARTIST LISTS
Like on your real Logitech Devices Album and Artist lists are fetched
from the server each time you enter the menu.
This might be annoying for large libraries - so why not cache the list
(until the server does the next rescan possibly finding new
albums/artist).
The list could be presented much faster then !
ALBUM ART ONLY SCREEN
A screen filled with the cover art of your library. Sorta like the
example posted here:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=560429&postcount=202
BETTER SEARCH
Enter a search term and get a combined search for
artists/albums/titles.
SOMETHING ELSE
If you think your most important feature is not in the list, vote here
and comment in this thread.
If this point gets enough votes I'll start the poll again with
different options :D
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bluegaspode
1x SB-Controller+Receiver (Duet), 1xSB-Boom. 1xSB-Radio
Server (7.5.1) running on SheevaPlug (Ubuntu) with attached Western
Digital MyBook Essential.
Want to see a Weather Forecast on your Radio/Touch/Controller ? => why
not try my 'Weather Forecast Applet'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73827)
Want to use the Headphones with your Controller ? => why not try my
'Headphone Switcher Applet'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67139)
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